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BITTER ROOT LAND TRUST INC

EIN 31-1595967 HAMILTON, MT

Revenue 2024
$1,389,064
Expenses 2024
$1,218,170

Program services were 78.6% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
NTEE code
C340
Classification
1000
Street
PO BOX 1806

These codes are the IRS's own and are shown exactly as filed. What each one means is in the Business Master File documentation (opens in a new tab).

Mission and programs · 2024

Mission

BRLT PARTNERS WITH LANDOWNERS AND COMMUNITY GROUPS TO CONSERVE the WATER, WILDLIFE, AND WORKING FARMS AND RANCHES IN MONTANA'S BITTERROOT VALLEY FOR all GENERATIONS, utilizing conservation easements, fee purchases, and proactive land stewardship.

  • In 2024, Bitter Root Land Trust advanced its mission of building a lasting conservation legacy in the Bitterroot Valley by partnering with local families and the broader community to conserve working farms and ranches, wildlife and fisheries habitat, scenic open lands, and public recreational opportunities. Together, these efforts protected more than 520 acres from Stevensville to Victor, preserving prime agricultural soils and habitat for elk, mule deer, and other wildlife. SEE SCHEDULE O FOR ADDITIONAL DETAILS.

    Expenses $957,170

As filed on the 2024 return.

Officers and directors · 2024

As listed in Part VII of the 2024 return, in the order the filer printed them. Each return names its own; this is not a roster the organization keeps with us.

  • Gavin Ricklefs

    Executive Dir.

    Total calculated
    $110,017
    From this org
    $110,017
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    40

  • Lauren Rennaker

    Executive Dir.

    Total calculated
    $99,267
    From this org
    $99,267
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    40

  • Jean Steele

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Meghan Hanson

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Michael Bradt

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • John Ormiston

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Morgan Weber

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Tori Nobles

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Heather Menning

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Kathie Messer

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Bret Young

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Lynn Thurber

    Treasurer

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Andrew Massie

    President

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Tonia Bloom

    Secretary

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Roger Gantz

    Vice President

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

Compensation is as filed in Part VII: reportable pay from this organization and from related organizations, other compensation, and hours per week. The total, marked calculated, is our sum of the three dollar columns, with a blank column counted as $0; the form itself has no total. On a Form 990-EZ the columns are Part IV's instead, and on a Form 990-PF Part VIII's — compensation, contributions to benefit plans, and expense account — and the total sums those. Earlier years are each on their own filing page.

Filings

  • 2024
    Revenue
    $1,389,064
    Expenses
    $1,218,170
    Contributions
    $1,350,904
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $1,290,788
    Expenses
    $1,138,457
    Contributions
    $1,238,946
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $1,533,262
    Expenses
    $1,039,117
    Contributions
    $1,341,434
    Grants paid
    $0

The four totals the IRS asks for on Part I of the Form 990, as filed. A dash means the figure was not present on the return — not that it was zero.

Other returns filed

  • 2021 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,321,915
    Expenses
    $726,488
    Assets (EOY)
    $2,204,388

  • 2020 · 990

    Revenue
    $863,354
    Expenses
    $704,391
    Assets (EOY)
    $1,534,132

  • 2019 · 990

    Revenue
    $857,860
    Expenses
    $678,171
    Assets (EOY)
    $1,751,519

  • 2018 · 990

    Revenue
    $620,082
    Expenses
    $537,536
    Assets (EOY)
    $1,599,202

  • 2017 · 990

    Revenue
    $885,512
    Expenses
    $436,522
    Assets (EOY)
    $1,069,038

Nonprofiteer parses Forms 990, 990-EZ and 990-PF, in a window of recent tax years. These returns are recorded from the IRS e-file index, so their figures were extracted by that index rather than read from the return here — treat them as a different source from the filings above, not as more of the same record. A dash means the index carries no figure; Form 990-T listings carry none at all.

Grants made

No itemized grants to organizations. Schedule I is filed only by organizations that granted more than $5,000 to a recipient, so most filers have none.

Grants received

The 10 largest by cash amount. The API serves every itemized grant.

Other IRS files

Auto-Revocation List

Not listed. The IRS publishes this list for organizations whose exemption was automatically revoked for failing to file for three consecutive years.

Publication 78

Listed as of 13 October 2026, under deductibility PC.

These are two separate IRS files on two separate schedules, shown as published and not reconciled with each other. Neither is a statement about whether a contribution is deductible today: 19,245 organizations appear in Publication 78 while the IRS's own revocation file lists them as currently revoked, more than half of those revoked before 2019. Absence from Publication 78 is evidence of nothing, and presence is not evidence either. Verify current status with the IRS before relying on it.

What this page reflects

The registration facts above come from the IRS Business Master File published 13 October 2026 and read 29 October 2026, for every organization at once. Returns through tax year 2024, the newest we have parsed for this organization.